Proposal: More info about unsupported and/or non-free drivers

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 17.06.2005, 17:55 +0200 schrieb Eric Feliksik:
> But does it also provide a system to give information to users? To tell 
> them why certain things won't work, what the chances are to get it to 
> work with manual intervention, and what the problems are of non-free 
> drivers and undisclosed specifications?
quoting from the roadmap:

Device related reports 

      * Common device reports (percentage used within the number of
        subscriptions) 
        
      * Detailed device reports based on the user feedback from the
        questionnaire to get a functionality overview for a certin
        device 
        
      * Class based device reports to find the best supported device for
        a certain class based on questionnaire and hardware data 
        
i think the second bulletpoint is what you want, it will provide the
information you ask for...

but anyway the right way to go is to solve the problems on the developer
side to make it "just work" so no user should have to care in the next
release ;) (which would make this information obsolete in the next or
maybe the release after)

ciao
	oli
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